It's all about finding your purpose in life

The sad state of local politics has me looking elsewhere for ideas and recently in Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approval ratings are declining because some of his people are talking out of turn.

Apparently, Abe's health minister described women as baby making machines. In a speech discussing Japan's falling birthrate, Yanagisawa on Jan. 27 said "the number of machines that produce babies is fixed, so each woman has to have more babies," according to the Asahi newspaper.

Frankly, this statement offends me as well because it completely overlooks the numerous skills women posses in regard to cooking, cleaning, complaining, driving poorly, taking the garbage out, minor home repair, believing my excuses as to why I haven't called in two weeks and also the important task of providing a source of friction for my naughty bits.

I've always admired the focus of the Japanese and their weird ass cartoons but it seems in this instance they are missing the forest from the live-in maid service.